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I've posted a thread on this awhile back. Went to Borders today and read through John Little's book again on Max Contraction.
For those of you who don't know, it basically gives a full body routine, where he suggests doing one set of an exercise and holding it in the fully contracted position for 1-6 seconds. No more than 6 sec for maximum growth.
You use more weight than normal because you arent doing repetitions, and the greater the weight, the greater the overload, the greater the growth.
I know Ive used static holds and other similar things at the end of my workouts, and his theory behind this is ..... understandable ( all the fibers fire in the fully contracted position).
I wanted to know your thoughts...
For those of you who don't know, it basically gives a full body routine, where he suggests doing one set of an exercise and holding it in the fully contracted position for 1-6 seconds. No more than 6 sec for maximum growth.
You use more weight than normal because you arent doing repetitions, and the greater the weight, the greater the overload, the greater the growth.
I know Ive used static holds and other similar things at the end of my workouts, and his theory behind this is ..... understandable ( all the fibers fire in the fully contracted position).
I wanted to know your thoughts...